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<p>[QUOTE="Black Friar, post: 3531279, member: 76221"]Two "American" mints produced these bronzes for local use. Mexico City, and Santo Domingo during the reign of Charles and Joanna (c.1556) Mexico City was the first mint, Santo Domingo didn't last very long. </p><p><br /></p><p>The locals hated them and threw them into bogs, water, etc. which is why they are generally "scudzy" to use an Early American Coppers term. They are quite scarce and an excellent example of a local coinage that didn't work. Pradeau's book "Numismatic History of Mexico" goes into some detail about the demise of these coppers. I have four of them; sorry, no pics of such. My bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a first edition of the book with a presentation inscription to a Mrs Sonya Marillon. In the preface he thanks Howland Wood then at the ANA for the preparation of the plates. Great stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Black Friar, post: 3531279, member: 76221"]Two "American" mints produced these bronzes for local use. Mexico City, and Santo Domingo during the reign of Charles and Joanna (c.1556) Mexico City was the first mint, Santo Domingo didn't last very long. The locals hated them and threw them into bogs, water, etc. which is why they are generally "scudzy" to use an Early American Coppers term. They are quite scarce and an excellent example of a local coinage that didn't work. Pradeau's book "Numismatic History of Mexico" goes into some detail about the demise of these coppers. I have four of them; sorry, no pics of such. My bad. I have a first edition of the book with a presentation inscription to a Mrs Sonya Marillon. In the preface he thanks Howland Wood then at the ANA for the preparation of the plates. Great stuff.[/QUOTE]
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